Messy fun at Thursday's Ukiah High Homecoming rally

Nothing gets hands and feet dirty faster than "messy Twister," just one of the games Ukiah High School class presidents competed in during Thursday's Homecoming rally.

Ketchup, mustard, chocolate syrup and whipped cream were added to a Twister mat and the four students reached around each other, getting dirtier and stickier every second as they battled to be the last one standing.

In the end, senior Paul Steliga won, outlasting junior Katrina Ohleyer after a long battle.

The seniors won the next contest as well, which was to see who could put on a frozen T-shirt the fastest. Each teen was given a frozen square of a white, cotton shirt and most threw them on the ground several times before finally being able to break them open.

Senior Scott Rhodes pulled his apart and pulled it on with only seconds to spare for the win with the junior class contestant fast on his heels.

The final contest was a combination pie-eating and bubble-blowing contest. The teens had to lie on their bellies and dig through a pie tin full of flour with only their faces to find the bubble gum hidden inside.

The first teen to not only find the gum but blow a bubble with it would win, and though it took only seconds to find the gum, it took much longer for the contestants to work a bubble out of the flour-coated gum.

Senior Bailee Dayton managed to win that contest, making it three-for-three for her class. Each game earns spirit points for the winner's class, points they collect for the ultimate prize of winning the Spirit Bell at the end of the week.

Today the classes will show off their skits at a morning rally, and the parade begins at 3:30 p.m.

Justine Frederiksen can be reached at udjjf@pacific.net, on Twitter @JustFrederiksen or at 468-3521.